diff --git a/clearml/automation/controller.py b/clearml/automation/controller.py
index 8326b399..cd6368ef 100644
--- a/clearml/automation/controller.py
+++ b/clearml/automation/controller.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ class PipelineController(object):
     _final_failure = {}  # Node.name: bool
     _task_template_header = CreateFromFunction.default_task_template_header
     _default_pipeline_version = "1.0.0"
+    _project_section = ".pipelines"
 
     valid_job_status = ["failed", "cached", "completed", "aborted", "queued", "running", "skipped", "pending"]
 
@@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ class PipelineController(object):
         if not self._task:
             task_name = name or project or '{}'.format(datetime.now())
             if self._pipeline_as_sub_project:
-                parent_project = "{}.pipelines".format(project+'/' if project else '')
+                parent_project = (project + "/" if project else "") + self._pipeline_section
                 project_name = "{}/{}".format(parent_project, task_name)
             else:
                 parent_project = None
@@ -1422,7 +1423,7 @@ class PipelineController(object):
         mutually_exclusive(pipeline_id=pipeline_id, pipeline_project=pipeline_project, _require_at_least_one=False)
         mutually_exclusive(pipeline_id=pipeline_id, pipeline_name=pipeline_name, _require_at_least_one=False)
         if not pipeline_id:
-            pipeline_project_hidden = "{}/.pipelines/{}".format(pipeline_project, pipeline_name)
+            pipeline_project_hidden = "{}/{}/{}".format(pipeline_project, cls._pipeline_section, pipeline_name)
             name_with_runtime_number_regex = r"^{}( #[0-9]+)*$".format(re.escape(pipeline_name))
             pipelines = Task._query_tasks(
                 pipeline_project=[pipeline_project_hidden],
diff --git a/clearml/automation/scheduler.py b/clearml/automation/scheduler.py
index 62852b04..713df403 100644
--- a/clearml/automation/scheduler.py
+++ b/clearml/automation/scheduler.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from attr import attrs, attrib
 from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
 
 from .job import ClearmlJob
+from .controller import PipelineController
 from ..backend_interface.util import datetime_from_isoformat, datetime_to_isoformat, mutually_exclusive
 from ..task import Task
 
@@ -59,6 +60,18 @@ class BaseScheduleJob(object):
                 self._executed_instances = []
             self._executed_instances.append(str(task_id))
 
+    def get_resolved_target_project(self):
+        if not self.base_task_id or not self.target_project:
+            return self.target_project
+        # noinspection PyBroadException
+        try:
+            task = Task.get_task(task_id=self.base_task_id)
+            if PipelineController._tag in task.get_system_tags() and "/{}/".format(PipelineController._pipeline_section) not in self.target_project:
+                return "{}/{}/{}".format(self.target_project, PipelineController._pipeline_section, task.name)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        return self.target_project
+
 
 @attrs
 class ScheduleJob(BaseScheduleJob):
@@ -447,7 +460,7 @@ class BaseScheduler(object):
             task_overrides=job.task_overrides,
             disable_clone_task=not job.clone_task,
             allow_caching=False,
-            target_project=job.target_project,
+            target_project=job.get_resolved_target_project(),
             tags=[add_tags] if add_tags and isinstance(add_tags, str) else add_tags,
         )
         self._log('Scheduling Job {}, Task {} on queue {}.'.format(